Posted on 01/14/2020 4:46:49 AM PST by BradtotheBone
Justin Trudeau has today blamed the US 'escalation' in the Middle East for the Iranian shoot-down of a passenger jet in an extraordinary swipe at Donald Trump. Echoing what Iranian officials have said, Trudeau said the dozens of Canadian crash victims would be 'home with their families' but for the tensions started by the US killing of Qassem Soleimani.
The Canadian PM said the international community had to 'manage the tensions in the region that are brought about by US actions'. After initially denying involvement, Iran admitted on Saturday that it had shot down the jet in error just hours after launching missile attacks on US bases in Iraq.
'I think if there were no tensions, if there was no escalation recently in the region, those Canadians would be right now home with their families,' Trudeau said in an interview with Global television. He added that the international community has been 'very, very clear about needing to have a non-nuclear Iran' but also in 'managing the tensions in the region that are brought about by US actions as well.' Iran has made similar statements, blaming its blunder which killed 176 people on 'US adventurism' which left both countries' militaries on high alert.
Tehran had fired a missile barrage at US bases on the night of the crash and mistook the passenger jet for a military plane poised to retaliate. Trump has yet to respond to Trudeau, with whom he has previously clashed. Last month the US president called him 'two-faced' after Trudeau and other leaders were caught on video appearing to ridicule Trump at a NATO summit near London. Trudeau said Canada did not receive a heads up before the United States killed Soleimani, and that he 'obviously' would have preferred one.
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There has been tension with Iran since the Carter administration. We all just got used to it as the new normal, until now.
Maybe Trudeau is too young to understand the difference.
-PJ
Soleimani’s attack on our embassy came first.
It becomes quite simple, really. If PDJT does it or allows it to happen, it is wrong—end of discussion.
“..Was the shooting down of a plane leaving Tehran the capital of Iran filled with people leaving it, ordered?..”
I have wondered about that. Did other commercial flights take off during that time period or only the Ukrainian flight? Did they have info that American drones would be targeting Baghdad and plan to blame the downing on American drones??
Another thought! With so many Canadian/Iranian dual citizens aboard, many, if not all, would have been Iranians whose parents fled Iran in 1979 and considered by the Mullahs as enemies of the state - good targets - maybe?
So many questions, so few answers.
What sort of despicable human garbage does business with Iran, the worlds leading state sponsor of terrorism? An Iranian regime that supplied weapons that have killed Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan.
Is profit over everything this scums only principal?
A:One is a plastic person who does a service for mankind. The other is the Prime Minister of Canada.
I heard Western Canada would love to Canxit...
Sorry to hear about your friend. I’ve had all sorts of pain, mostly related to degenerative joints but I had an lung infection that pressed on a nerve for nearly a year before it was properly diagnosed and treated. It radiated from my back down my arm to my finger tips. Terrible pain that opioids barely touched. I can only imagine the pain your friend is enduring. Added the lack of proper medical care in “Free Medicine” in Socialist Canada is not shocking to those who pay attention to the issues.
Prayers for him and his family.
Time to send the Detroit SWAT team up north to grab that idiotic soy boy and bring him to the US for trial.
This coward is unreal.
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